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Edward Higgins White II turns to smile at the camera from inside the driver's seat of the Apollo guidance system at the Instrumentation Laboratory.

Original caption: "The late Edward H. White 2d, photographed on a visit to M.I.T. three weeks before his death in a fire on the Apollo launch pad at Cape Kennedy. In a statement about the tragic deaths of Astronauts White, Grissom and Chaffee. David G. Hoag, 1946, Associate Director of the Instrumentation Laboratory, said: "We at M.I.T. are deeply stunned by the accident which has claimed the lives of the three astronauts. During the years we have been developing the guidance and navigation system for the Apollo spacecraft we had worked with all of them closely in Cambridge and in Houston....All three made frequent visits to M.I.T., particularly Astronaut White, the senior pilot who was the crew member specifically assigned to guidance and navigation operations.", Used in: Technology Review, March 1967, p.45

Used in: Technology Review, March 1967 p.45